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(ModeL) A. H. MIKESBLLJ. CARPET STRETCHER. No. 470,068. Patented Marv-1,1892.

WITNESSES: IIVVENTOH ATTORNEY.

' lNrTEn "STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AZARIAII H. MIKESELL, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TERRITORY, ASSIGN OR TO GEORGE II. GILMOUR AND JAMES D. \VALKER, OF SAME PLACE.

CARPET-STRETCHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 470,068, dated March 1, 1892. Application filed May 6, 1891- Serial No. 391,745. (ModeL) T on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, .AZARIAH H. MIKESELL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and Territory of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Stretchers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this to specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in carpet-stretchers; and the object is to provide a machine for the purpose which is simple in construction, efficient in operation, and

I 5 readily used, and the invention is fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

I have fully and clearly illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings, where- Figure 1 is a side view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail View taken on the line a: as of Fig. 1. Fig. at is a detail view of the locking-lever.

2 5 A designates the anchoring-rod, formed with a prong 1, struck down to adapt the rod to be fixed in the-floor.

B designates the lever, with an opening 2 near its lower end, which hole loosely takes the anchoring-rod A, as indicated in the drawings, so that the lever may intermittently travel over the rod.

0 designates the stretching-frame, consisting of two side pieces or bars 3 4, connected at theirfront ends by a toothed bar 5 and having their rear ends connected to the lever B,-

as shown in the drawings. The rear ends of the side bars 3 4 are continued beyond their supporting-point on the lever and curved downward, with their ends turned upwarchas at 5", to form supports for the bar orbracket and the mechanism carried by it.

Drepresents a rectangular-shaped bar or bracket having in its depending arm a hole 6,

through which the anchoring-rod is passed,

and the end of the horizontal arm of this bracket is connected to a lug 7, projecting from the lever B. In this bracket isa hole 8,

in which the stem 9 of a locking-lever 10 is loosely arranged, the lower end of the locking-lever being formed with an aperture 11, larger in diameter than that of the anchoringrod and arranged over the rod,as shown. 011 the anchoring-rod between the levers connection or location thereon and the locking lever is a spring 12, the force of which tends to push the locking-lever forward or in the direction of the prong on the bar when the locking-lever is loose.

E designates another rectangularrshaped 6o bracket, similar in construction to that of the bracket D, arranged or mounted on the opposite side of the lever B, as shown. This bracket is arranged on the anchoring-bar the reverse to the other bracket D, and being provided with-a spring 13 on the anchoring-rod and a locking-lever 14, catching or locking on the bar in reverse direction to the other lockinglever. The lower end of the bracket E is connected to the extended or depending end of 7c the lever B.

The operation is as follows: The prong of the anchoring-bar is driven in the floor and the toothed bar or rack engages in the carpet at the rear of the prong, and then the lever is reciprocated. \Vhen the handle is pushed forward, the prong being fixed 0r anchored, the bracket D is also moved in the same direction and the locking-lever correspondingly moved through the instrumentality of the spring, and 8c when the lever-handle is moved in reverse direction the pressure is brought on the end of the locking-lever and the spring pushes the lower end thereof forward until an inclined position is assumed and a grip on the bar at- 8 5 tached and that part locked or stayed on the rod. At the same time, or by the same movement of the lever, the bracket on the outer side of lever is drawn forward and its lockinglever loosened and the bracket, with spring drawn forward, and by these reciprocations the lever and the connected toothed bar is carried forward and the carpet stretched.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a carpet-stretcher, the combination, with an anchoring-.rod, of a lever through which said rod loosely passes, a toothed frame having side bars curved and extended below the lower end of the lever, brackets D and E,

arranged one on each side of the lever, and spring-actuated levers 9 and 14, arranged upon the brackets and the anchoring-rod, substantially as described.

5 2. In a carpet-stretcher, the combination of an anchoring-rod, a lever on the rod, and a toothed frame connected to the lever, said frame having its side bars extended beyond the connecting-points to the lever and bent 1o downward and curved upward to form supports extending beyond the lower end of the lever, substantially as described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AZARIAI'I II. MIKESELL.

Vvitnesses:

JAMES E. DARMER, PHILIP G. DAWsoN. 

